Summary

Like most people, she didn’t choose her family. Amy chose her in a way, and Rory always loved anything Amy loved. It was a disconcerting day when River discovered she was not the first Pond adoptee. That honor belonged to the man currently on stage enthusiastically butchering Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs. Robinson.

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The TARDIS translation matrix was written into her DNA, something she could toggle on and off and look through like a mental dictionary. For the Doctor and his friends, things were just automatically comprehensible. But translating manually, well. The Doctor wasn’t terribly good at that.